In order to attract more users to join the IPFS network and contribute to the network, a cryptocurrency named filecoin is designed and distributed to participants (nodes) as a reward according to the contributed storage space and bandwidth. In a narrow sense, the computer specially designed to win the filecoin Prize is called IPFS mining machine.
Because IPFS network needs storage space and network bandwidth, in order to obtain the highest profit ratio, IPFS mining machines usually strengthen storage space and reduce the power consumption of the whole machine. For example, equipped with 10 or above large-capacity hard disk, equipped with gigabit or higher-speed network card, using ultra-low power architecture processor and so on.
Of course, mining machines provide warehousing services, so as to make a profit. The profit is related to the configuration of mining machines and the current number of IPFS mining machines.
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Reasons for not recommending investment in IPFS:
It is still too early to commercialize 1 and IPFS technologies.
IPFS now takes up a lot of bandwidth. IPNS is very slow at present, which is an obvious technical defect. It is difficult to realize dynamic web pages only through IPFS.
2. Without a reasonable economic model, even with the participation of token economy, it is difficult to realize long-term natural ecological value.
As an extremely cumbersome distributed protocol, IPFS is difficult for users to share files spontaneously. In addition, even if users share files into the protocol, the files will be completely open, and users cannot effectively delete them, so the security of valid files is threatened.
The solution is to introduce encryption and blockchain incentives. At the same time, the problems of file security and storage capacity are solved. However, as mentioned earlier, under the blockchain incentive mechanism, any node with workload proof will face the economic problem of continuous startup.
3. Under the influence of technical problems, it is difficult to establish an ecological network with IPFS as the core.
The ecological application space of IPFS is quite limited, and the interaction speed of projects through IPFS protocol is also very slow. Of course, this is directly related to the number of nodes and the calling distance.
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